Chapter 182: The Journey
Is it over...... At least the battle for the island is over.
The spreading fungus was burned by Lynn with a hot fire, their queen was cut in two by the pioneers, and the fleeing locusts were killed by the bombarders, but this was still far from a complete victory over the 'wandering plague'.
It is impossible to clean up the fungus dust scattered in the air, and if they float on a certain plant, I wonder if it will grow? And Lynn isn't entirely sure if she killed all the locusts, and most importantly, there may be more than one colony of this species.
Now, Lynn is analyzing the group of creatures to see what is going on inside them.
If not counting fungi, locusts and locust lords are typical divisional species, and they are more primitive kinds, with only one queen and one army, but Lynn finds some strange things in them.
The locust lord uses gills to breathe, so he can maintain such a large size, while the locust uses stomata to breathe, so it is small, but in this way, the two species seem to be separated, and the locust lord cannot help the locust lord cope with the underwater situation, and the locust lord must also go ashore and surface in order to produce locusts......
This feels quite strange, there is no queen who can't directly protect herself after giving birth to a class, but the locust lord does have the organs to produce locusts......
There are also fungi, each locust has a large number of fungi in the body, these fungi seem to stick to the internal organs of the locust, cortex, blood vessels and other places in the form of parasites, including the brain, there are many of them, usually dormant, and once the locusts die, they will explode.
These parasite-like fungi have yet to be discovered by Lynn how they are connected to locusts. Fungi do not belong to the group of locusts. It is quite possible to be a symbiotic organism. These fungi are terrifying, devouring any living thing, but they are the only ones that are not infected with locusts, and it's hard to imagine how this relationship was established in the first place.
Locust lords have no fungi in their bodies other than their brains, nor are newly born locusts, but they can become infected by contact with other locusts.
Only the brain has it? Could it be that fungi have anything to do with the brain?
Moreover, Lynn did not find anything to do with the 'Echo Eggs'. The Locust Lord does not produce Echo Eggs, but it is clear that Lynn sees that Locusts will avoid islands with Echo Eggs.
Some creatures do have a fear of certain sounds, which is related to their nervous system, but locusts don't seem to have any structures in their brains that are sensitive to the sound of echo eggs.
It's all too strange, this race is full of mysteries that need to be investigated further.
At the same time, Lynn has also 'saved' the island, although the island's animals are only a few sound lizards...... The creature was still pounding stones in the jungle, making a constant gagging sound, not knowing how long it would take. So Lynn used 'Hallucinogen' to show the swarm of locusts leaving, and the lizard stopped moving.
Then it was clearly a stone that was knocked out for the locusts. But it's hard to know why it knows that knocking this one works.
Although the 'plague' was stopped, Lynn felt like the island was 'dead'...... It's better to get some other creatures here.
Lynn was ready to leave now.
Trips to the west had been paused for a while, and Lynn felt the need to speed up.
If you find any interesting creatures along the way, get them to this island.
But it's not time to leave yet, Lin has to clean up the wreckage on the battlefield, recover resources, those fungi that have been burned to ashes are edible, and the head worm also looks like it wants to eat, but Lin doesn't let it get close to the battlefield at all this time, if it is infected with this kind of thing, it will be difficult to get rid of it in time.
After recovering enough resources, Lin checked the jungle again, and after confirming that there was no infection, she left her eyeball tentacles to observe, and began to gather her troops and continue on the westward journey.
The next day and night, Lynn's troops left the island, starting from the cliffs behind the jungle to the south, where a large number of bombarders and Behemoths flew over the jungle, and the pioneers also rounded the island to this position, where Lynn thought that if she set out from here, she might be able to see something more special.
There should be more of an island-like 'swimmer' at sea, and some of the island's creatures may have left with other swimmers, and they may still be alive and have reached other places.
After one last look at the island, Lynn named it 'The End of the Plague', but it was a bit troublesome, so she just called it 'Plague Island'.
Maybe I'll encounter this fungus again in the future, so Lynn will turn them into dust in this world as she does now.
Next, it's time to face the endless ocean again......
I wonder how long it will take to reach the mainland?
In this way, during Lynn's journey, more than a dozen days and nights slowly passed......
The ocean is not static, and Lynn sees many new sea creatures, and Lynn finds that there are more shellless ammonites and arrowstones in this area, which are like ancient squid, and have degraded their shells.
There are quite a few new species of fish, but it doesn't feel like there's a big gap, probably because they're just starting to classify, and there are more and more large fish like sharks.
At sea, Lynn also found numerous islands, most of which were small and almost all barren islands filled with sand and rocks.
Echo eggs are occasionally found on the islands, but not every island has them, but the common denominator of the echo eggs is that they are all located on deserted islands, regardless of the size of the island, sometimes a small island with a diameter of a few meters will have one, and Lin found that a round island with a diameter of more than 100 meters is occupied by a marine plant that crawls ashore and a large number of Broundo scorpions, but this island does not have echo eggs.
What kind of creature put this puzzle-filled thing? Hopefully, the answer will be found soon, but it is only known that the plague has some connection to them.
The Brondu scorpion is a creature that may have become a large arthrocood on land after hypoxia, and instead of getting smaller in a land where oxygen is scarce, it has begun to grow larger, and the way they breathe with their gills seems to be very effective, but for now they must be kept moist and cannot go too far from the water.
The head worm has returned to the boredom stage, so Lin asks it to continue watching the situation of the ancient squid group in the warped jungle.
Ancient Squid Ika has now become the king of waterholes, it has gathered a huge colony of up to a hundred ancient squid, and occupies the largest puddle in the canyon, usually ancient squid do not gather such a large group, but because of the current resource problems, they all have to gather together.
They feed on small arthropods near hunting puddles, and occasionally catch large reptiles.
Because the position of leader is not eternal, Ika is often challenged by other ancient squids, sometimes several times a day, as the Brain Worm calls it: "Stupid competition, unreasonable distribution, unfair way of fighting." ”
Despite this, Ika defeated all the challengers and became the most powerful squid of his generation, but the strongest didn't make sense if it couldn't be continued, so Ika found the strongest of its challengers and planned to breed with it.
There is a special 'courtship ritual' in which one squid makes a request first, and if the requested party agrees, then the two squid must strike various poses together, and then hunt, fight, etc., and only the squid that can cooperate perfectly with each other will be combined.
This is mainly to test their 'personality synchronization', which the Brain Worm thinks is very good, and if the personalities are not compatible, it will only be troublesome to stay together, just like the Brain Worm cannot command with Mketu.
There will be a lot of arguments and the like, according to the head worm, which occasionally occurs in their group, and once the head worm got into an argument with its companion because it was always tumbling about a second slower than the others, and it thought it wasn't that slow at all.
Eventually, when the clan was ruined, the head worm was consumed by the lava first instead of running away with his companions due to the speed of the tumble.
So, it's really important to synchronize your personality.
And Ika obviously doesn't have to care about this kind of thing now, it has a good synchronization rate with its mates, so they will soon plan to lay eggs, and presumably Ika's offspring will be as strong as it, and find a way out for the fate of the ancient squid in the entire canyon.
In fact, their fate was not very good, and although it rained a few times, the canyon was very small, and the puddles always dried up much faster than they recovered.
As they prepare to give birth, they finally find out what Ika's gender is......
'Smack. The display is turned off.
The sky above the ocean was roaring with a fierce wind, and several thunderous lights were streaked under the dark clouds all over the sky, and Lin was once again caught in a storm at sea, and Lin found that the head worm seemed to attract thunder and lightning when it was active, so it was necessary to turn off the display.
In the midst of the raging winds, Behemoth and the bombers were connected by a rope to form a large and stable whole to resist the storm, and although diving into the water was even more impervious to the storm, Lynn felt that there was no need for that.
The storm was a bit bigger than what had been encountered on the island before, but it wasn't enough to shake Lynn's forces.
Moreover, there are many more interesting things to be found on the surface of the sea, such as ...... Some kind of gigantic creature.
In the darkness of the sea filled with thunder, an island 100 meters wide appeared in front of Lynn's eyes, swaying in the water like the waves on the surface of the sea.
The 'island' was teeming with creatures, mostly reptiles, gathered together and shivering in the storm.
They are apparently another group of creatures that have escaped from the 'Plague Island'. (To be continued......)
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